Faculty in the News

Jeff Sovern has a new op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on how infrequently purchasers invoke statutory cooling-off periods to rescind consumer transactions. The op-ed is based on Jeff’s recent paper, Written Notice of Cooling-Off Periods: A Forty-Year Natural Experiment in Illusory Consumer Protection and the Relative Effectiveness of Oral and Written Disclosures (available here).

Leonard Baynes was quoted in Communications Daily on minority ownership of radio and television stations. The article in not available online.